Still stalled in Laos
(N.Z. Press Association-Copyright) SAIGON, February 23.
South Vietnamese troops were stalled in Laos today under heavy enemy pressure, including North Vietnamese anti-aircraft fire, heavy concentrations of mines, and harassing attacks on isolated outposts, the Associated Press reported.
One source monitoring the Laos operation said that the forward-most South Vietnamese elements were bogged down for the sixth consecutive day 16 air miles inside Laos.
South Vietnamese spokesmen have reported that their most advanced troops are 16 to 17J miles west of the border. One of the announced objectives of the drive is Sepone, a key North Vietnamese trans-shipment point on east-west Highway 9, several miles beyond the farthest South Vietnamese advance.
A Saigon spokesman said that North Vietnamese gunners struck at least 10 positions with rockets and mortars in the most intense shelling attacks since the South Vietnamese moved across the border on February 8.
N.Z.P.A.-Reuter reported the South Vietnamese command still had not voluntarily given any information about a Ranger battalion overrun at one of the isolated outposts near the Demilitarised Zone in Laos on Saturday.
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32539, 24 February 1971, Page 15
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